I did a double take when I saw this on the page. I can’t believe this. My thoughts are with her in the terrible time, I just hope she can find the strength to get through. I know it will be hard for her and her daughter. I wish her well.

I could not agree more. I was so looking forward to the new season, but in light of this death I can’t in good conscience participate, as a viewer, in the destruction of more and more people and their families.

NJ is also skirting this territory, and I personally thought Kelly Bensimon would be the first actual casualty of Andy Cohen’s path to TV mogul.

Is it too much to hope that an incident such as this, while tragic, will hopefully knock some sense into these reality tv “stars” to re-examine their empty and materialistic lives? Perhaps Taylor will realize that a $60K birthday party for a toddler is probably not the best idea?

Unfortunately, though, I think the network will view this as television “gold” and exploit it for all it is worth to get the ratings up, under the pretense that they are merely showing what is “real”. If I were Taylor, I would withdraw immediately from any further taping, but what are the chances of that occurring?

I find all of this just so sad. Taylor is one of my faves. Regardless of her materialism, I was always intrigued by her storyline. No matter what happened between them, he is Kennedy’s father and she won’t get to have him in her life.

I was actually even more shocked this morning cuz I heard it on the radio on my drive to work and the deejay said it was Taylor herself who died. But he was obviously confused.